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Detailed report on installing Debian lenny/sid on Fujitsu Lifebook P7230. Includes use of LUKS device mapper encryption with LVM for swap and /home.

Author chose Sidux since it is a nice current distro (also because of the support for current hardware), and also gets more support and testing done on it than just plain Debian Sid. Sidux is probably one of the quickest booting and running distro's available at the moment. Package management is easy and updates are frequently available. Works well on X61s.

Detailed guide on installing and configuring Debian Etch on Toshiba Tecra M5. With little bit of effort, looks like everything can be made to work on Tecra M5 (a fairly modern laptop) with Debian Etch. Author is a veteran Debian user and found the current release (4.0) to be uncharacteristically smooth - especially in it's support for laptops.

Open source based data backup tools have come a long way. This article shows how to quickly setup network based backup all using freely downloadable open source tools. A combination of Amanda, Samba and open source encryption tools enable this setup. Backup configuration on two different Linux distributions and a Windows client is shown.

Detailed how-to on installing Kubuntu/Ubuntu “Dapper Drake” on Dell Inspiron 1300